I'm 24 and I don't have a license. I live in Los Angeles, so there's really no such thing as a quiet drive here. I'm not a very good multitasker, and I'm hypersensitive to visual and auditory stimuli (I get very anxious on freeways and crowded roads even when I'm a passenger), so I don't know how I'm ever going to truly overcome this. :[
Sudden noises scare me really badly, so I'm always worried about tires being blown, exhaust backfiring... even just horns honking put me in panic mode. And if I ever have a real panic attack on the road, I don't even want to think about what might happen because my body reacts by locking up and it gets very hard to think or move, and that just sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.
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